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6. An estimate of the total annual 

burden (in hours) associated with the 

collection: CJIS estimates total 7 burden 

hours (200 × 2 min/60 = 7). 

7. An estimate of the total annual cost 

burden associated with the collection, if 

applicable: $0. 

TOTAL BURDEN HOURS

Activity Number of 

respondents Frequency Total annual responses 

Time per 

response 

Total annual 

burden 

(hours) 

Survey ............................................................................... 200 1/annually ......... 200 2 min .............. 7 

Undisputed Totals ..................................................... 200 ........................... 200 ........................ 7 

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contact: Darwin Arceo, Department 

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Square, 145 N Street NE, 4W–218, 

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Dated: February 14, 2024. 

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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 

Proposal Review Panel for Materials 

Research; Notice of Meeting 

In accordance with the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act (Pub., L. 92– 

463, as amended), the National Science 

Foundation (NSF) announces the 

following meeting: 

Name and Committee Code: Proposal 

Review Panel for Materials Research— 

Materials Research Science and 

Engineering Center (MRSEC) Site Visit 

University of California, San Diego 

(DMR) (#1203) 

Date and Time: May 23, 2024; 7:30 

a.m.–6:45 p.m.; May 24, 2024; 8:00 

a.m.–3:45 p.m. 

Place: University of California, San 

Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, CA 

92093. 

Type of Meeting: Part-Open. 

Contact Person: Dr. Cosima BoswellKoller, Program Director, National 

Science Foundation, 2415 Eisenhower 

Ave., Alexandria, VA 22314; Telephone: 

703–292–4959. 

Purpose of Meeting: NSF site visit to 

conduct a review during year 4 of the 

award period as stipulated in the 

cooperative agreement. 

Agenda: To conduct an in depth 

evaluation of performance, to assess 

progress towards goals, and to provide 

recommendations. 

Thursday, May 23, 2024 

7:30 a.m.–12:05 p.m. Executive Sessions 

(Closed) 

12:05 p.m.–1:00 p.m. Lunch (Open) 

1:00 p.m.–2:30 p.m. Executive Sessions 

(Closed) 

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and Lab Tour (Closed) 

3:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m. Poster Session 

(Open) 

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(Closed) 

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(Closed) 

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including technical information; 

financial data, such as salaries, and 

personal information concerning 

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program. These matters are exempt 

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Government in the Sunshine Act. 

Dated: February 14, 2024. 

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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 

Request for Information on the 

National Spectrum Research and 

Development Plan 

AGENCY: Networking and Information 

Technology Research and Development 

(NITRD) National Coordination Office 

(NCO), National Science Foundation. 

ACTION: Request for information. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Presidential 

Memorandum on Modernizing United 

States Spectrum Policy and Establishing 

a National Spectrum Strategy, 

November 13, 2023, the Secretary of 

Commerce, acting through the National 

Telecommunications and Information 

Administration (NTIA), released a 

National Spectrum Strategy (Strategy), 

November 13, 2023. The word 

‘‘spectrum’’ in this context refers to the 

radio frequency portion of the 

electromagnetic spectrum. Strategic 

Objective 3.2 of the Strategy directs the 

U.S. Government, through the White 

House Office of Science and Technology 

Policy (OSTP) and in coordination with 

the Federal agencies, to develop a 

National Spectrum Research and 

Development Plan (R&D Plan). On 

behalf of OSTP, NITRD NCO seeks 

public input for the creation of the R&D 

Plan. The R&D Plan will act as an 

organizing national document, 

providing guidance for government 

investments in spectrum-related 

research and offering valuable insights. 

The R&D Plan will identify key 

innovation areas for spectrum research 

and development and will include a 

process to refine and enhance these 

areas on an ongoing basis. 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before 11:59 

p.m. (ET) on March 21, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Comments submitted in 

response to this RFI may be sent by any 

of the following methods: 

• Email: SpectrumRnDplanRFI@

nitrd.gov; Email submissions should be 

machine-readable and not be copyprotected. Submissions should include 

‘‘RFI Response: National Spectrum R&D 

Plan’’ in the subject line of the message. 

• Fax: 202–459–9673, Attn: Mallory 

Hinks; or 

• Mail: Attn: Mallory Hinks, 2415 

Eisenhower Avenue, Alexandria, VA 

22314, USA. 

Instructions: Response to this RFI is 

voluntary. Each individual or institution 

is requested to submit only one 

response. Submissions must not exceed 

10 pages in 12 point or larger font, with 

a page number provided on each page. 

Responses must include the name of the 

person(s) or organization(s) filing the 

comment and the following statement: 

‘‘This document is approved for public 

dissemination. The document contains 

no business-proprietary or confidential 

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reused by the government in the 

National Spectrum R&D Plan and 

associated documents without 

attribution.’’ Responses to this RFI may 

be posted online at https://

www.nitrd.gov/. Therefore, we request 

that no business proprietary 

information, copyrighted information, 

or sensitive personally identifiable 

information be submitted as part of your 

response to this RFI. In accordance with 

FAR 15.202(3), responses to this notice 

are not offers and cannot be accepted by 

the Government to form a binding 

contract. Responders are solely 

responsible for all expenses associated 

with responding to this RFI. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Mallory Hinks at 

SpectrumRnDplanRFI@nitrd.gov or 

(202) 459–9674. Individuals who use a 

telecommunications device for the deaf 

(TDD) may call the Federal Information 

Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339 

between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., eastern time, 

Monday through Friday, except for U.S. 

Federal Government holidays. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

National Spectrum Strategy (Strategy), 

November 13, 2023, Strategic Objective 

3.2 directs the U.S. Government, 

through the White House Office of 

Science and Technology Policy and in 

coordination with the Federal agencies, 

to develop a National Spectrum 

Research and Development Plan (R&D 

Plan). The R&D Plan will act as an 

organizing national document, 

providing guidance for government 

investments in spectrum-related 

research and offering valuable insights. 

The plan will identify key innovation 

areas for spectrum research and 

development and will include a process 

to refine and enhance these areas on an 

ongoing basis. 

OSTP has tasked the NITRD Wireless 

Spectrum Research and Development 

Interagency Working Group (WSRD 

IWG) to draft and coordinate 

development of the National Spectrum 

R&D Plan. The R&D Plan is expected to 

be released in late 2024. Revisions will 

occur periodically. 

The NITRD WSRD IWG requests input 

from the public, including academia 

and industry, to assist in development 

of the National Spectrum R&D Plan. 

Topics: We encourage responses to be 

organized according to the following 

outline, although we also welcome 

responses that address only a subset of 

the items below. Submitters are 

encouraged to address the topics of this 

RFI clearly and concisely. Submitted 

information that does not directly 

address the RFI may be disregarded. 

1. Recommendations on strategies for 

conducting spectrum research in a 

manner that minimizes unnecessary 

duplication, ensures that all essential 

spectrum research areas are sufficiently 

explored, and achieves measurable 

advancements in state-of-the-art 

spectrum science and engineering. This 

includes, but is not limited to, the 

following: 

• Methods/approaches to increase 

coordinated investment in R&D 

amongst government agencies, 

academia, civil society, and the 

private sector 

• Structural and process improvements 

in the organization and promotion of 

Federal and non-Federal spectrum 

R&D 

2. Recommended priority areas for 

spectrum research and development, as 

well as productive directions for 

advancing the state-of-the-art in those 

areas. Areas of interest include, but are 

not limited to, the following: 

• Spectrum utilization efficiency 

• Spectrum resilience and assured 

access for critical mission 

applications and passive scientific 

observation 

• Dynamic spectrum access and 

management 

• Spectrum situational awareness at 

scale 

• Automatic and rapid mitigation of 

interference problems 

• Modeling for coexistence analysis 

Topics relevant to each of the above 

include, but are not limited to, the 

following: 

• Technical methods, designs, and 

processes 

• Economic-, market-, social-, and 

human-centric concerns 

• Business and economic models 

• Protection of citizen privacy, sensitive 

government missions, and business 

proprietary data 

• Cost-effective hardware supporting 

more dynamic spectrum usage 

• Use of artificial intelligence and 

machine learning techniques 

• Testbed development 

• Assessment and certification of 

advanced systems 

3. Recommendations on grand 

challenge problems for spectrum R&D. 

Grand challenges are selected research 

problems that if attacked will help 

motivate and coalesce R&D efforts. Such 

problems have the following 

characteristics: 

• The goal can be concisely articulated 

to stakeholders outside the field 

• Success or failure is clear 

• Achieving success requires advancing 

the state-of-the-art in multiple areas 

4. Recommendations on spectrum 

R&D accelerators such as the following: 

• Shared public datasets 

• Open-source software/projects 

• Cost-effective flexible radio platforms 

• Benchmarks and competitions 

• Testbeds, research infrastructure, and 

collaboration support 

5. Recommendations on near-term 

Federal activities to make progress 

towards anything identified in 

responses 1–4. 

6. Recommendations on a process to 

refine and enhance the R&D plan on an 

ongoing basis. 

7. Terminology and definitions 

relevant for spectrum R&D. 

• One term of interest is ‘‘Dynamic 

Spectrum Sharing’’ which is a focus 

of the National Spectrum Strategy but 

was not defined. 

8. Other topics. 

Next steps: The NITRD WSRD IWG 

will consider submissions to this RFI 

when preparing the National Spectrum 

R&D Plan. The NITRD WSRD IWG will 

not provide responses to submissions. 

Submissions may be posted to the 

NITRD website listed above for public 

review. An open to the public meeting 

will be held in May 2024, for 

community engagement with the NITRD 

WSRD IWG on the R&D Plan. A notice 

of this meeting with how to participate 

will be published in the Federal 

Register and on the NITRD WSRD IWG 

web page, https://www.nitrd.gov/ 

coordination-areas/wsrd/. 

References 

• Presidential Memorandum on 

Modernizing United States Spectrum 

Policy and Establishing a National 

Spectrum Strategy, https:// 

www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/ 

presidential-actions/2023/11/13/ 

memorandum-on-modernizing-unitedstates-spectrum-policy-and-establishinga-national-spectrum-strategy/. 

• National Spectrum Strategy, 

https://www.ntia.gov/sites/default/files/ 

publications/national_spectrum_

strategy_final.pdf. 

Submitted by the National Science 

Foundation in support of the 

Networking and Information 

Technology Research and Development 

(NITRD) National Coordination Office 

(NCO) on February 14, 2024. 

(Authority: 42 U.S.C. 1861.) 

Suzanne H. Plimpton, 

Reports Clearance Officer, National Science 

Foundation. 

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